BEWARE OF ONLINE LOTTERY FRAUD

It might interest readers to know that a week ago I received an email from "MICROSOFT WORD LOTTERY UK", informing me that I was one of 5 lucky winners in the above and had been awarded a cash prize of PDS 5.5 million! The sender asked me to send some personal information (full name, age, address etc), which I duly provided. I subsequently received another email requesting that I send an email to a courier company (Speedfreight Courier Express Ltd), who would make arrangements to send me a cashier cheque for the full amount of my winnings. I then received an email from the couriers asking me to pay several hundred Pounds Sterling for delivering the cheque to my address in Thailand. I then contacted my UK Lawyer, sent him copies of the emails I had received and he responded immediately informing me that this was a scam. I also contacted Microsoft Corp. offices in the UK and eventually received a reply confirming there is no such thing as "MICROSOFT WORD LOTTERY UK".

A few days later I received an email from "The Irish Lottery" informing me that I had won PDS450,000 in an online lottery game. This time I was informed that my winning cashier cheques was in the possession of "The Royal Bank of Scotland" and that I should contact them via email at an address which they provided. I checked the official RBS website to discover the email address was fake.

So BEWARE of any email which offers cash prizes and then asks you to pay delivery charges.

A useful website to check out is www.data-wales.co.uk (The Internet Fraud Advisory), as they provide information about and have a long list of names of fake companies, people who are involved in these fraudulent activities.

BEWARE OF ONLINE LOTTERY FRAUD

The sender asked me to send some personal information (full name, age, address etc), which I duly provided.

Wow. Good move.

That's simply amazing, thank you for the caution!

BEWARE OF ONLINE LOTTERY FRAUD

It might interest readers to know that a week ago I received an email from "MICROSOFT WORD LOTTERY UK", informing me that I was one of 5 lucky winners in the above and had been awarded a cash prize of PDS 5.5 million! The sender asked me to send some personal information (full name, age, address etc), which I duly provided. I subsequently received another email requesting that I send an email to a courier company (Speedfreight Courier Express Ltd), who would make arrangements to send me a cashier cheque for the full amount of my winnings. I then received an email from the couriers asking me to pay several hundred Pounds Sterling for delivering the cheque to my address in Thailand. I then contacted my UK Lawyer, sent him copies of the emails I had received and he responded immediately informing me that this was a scam. I also contacted Microsoft Corp. offices in the UK and eventually received a reply confirming there is no such thing as "MICROSOFT WORD LOTTERY UK".

What Nationality are you?

I win at least 1x per week...

Some are a little harder to spot as a scam, if you buy an item and a week or 2 later you get a email to say you won from that company. could it be true? eg: buy a genuine Microsoft OS, get email saying you entered into the draw when you bought from MS.......... or you have won a new car from Honda [had many other makes also] just I own a Honda, so buying my Honda did I also enter a draw.?

This morning won again look

"(e)-NATIONAL LOTTERY BOARD" <[email protected]>

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You have won £2,500,000.00;Contact; Mr.Willie Banks E-mail: [email protected]

if these are scams does that mean all that money i won will not be transferred to my bank account?

I just mail them my ATM card and pin number so they can stick the winnings directly in my account.